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DC Environmental Film Fest Starts March 16th

Liz Borkowski March 13, 2010 Environmental Health

Our DC-readers should check out the many offerings of the annual Environmental Film Festival, which will run from March 16-28. This year, food is a major theme, and the festival’s press release highlights several films about the challenges of feeding the world’s population...

Science News "They" Don't Want you to Know

Cervantes March 12, 2010

Every week the news readers will breathlessly tout some breakthrough by heroic geniuses in white lab coats that ten years from now might, just might, give people with terminal cancer three more weeks to live. For some mysterious reason, they have completely ignored what I happen to think is...

Salmonella, food safety and potato chips

March 12, 2010 Agribusiness

When last we visited the US food safety system during the Bush administration it was busy serving up peanut butter with a side of Salmonella. That one caused over 4 thousand product recalls, 700 Salmonella cases and at least 9 deaths. Now it's Salmonella serovar Tennessee in hydrolyzed vegetable...

Wherever I look, whistleblower issues abound

Celeste Monforton March 12, 2010 Confined Space @ TPH

I think the ghost of Tony Mazzocchi is haunting me.  Every day for the last 10 days, I’ve been presented with narratives, videos, testimony and phone calls about the workers who are compelled or forced to become whistleblowers.  It started with a student asking me about Karen...

A Bureaucratic Assault on CalOSHA Staff

The Pump Handle March 12, 2010 Confined Space @ TPH

By Jack Oudiz Pump Handle readers may recall the “Exit Interview” I posted here in June 2009 upon my retirement from Cal/OSHA after nearly 25 years of service. In that letter, I testified about the many ways that Cal/OSHA was failing to carry out its mandated mission, in part as a result of...

It's my body . . .

Cervantes March 11, 2010

It is very common for people taking antiretroviral medications to believe that they should not take them whenever they use alcohol or illicit drugs. I don't know whether this is true for other categories of medications, but I suspect it is.In fact, however, physicians do not believe that. They...

Flu vaccines, herd immunity and randomized trials

revere March 11, 2010 Influenza

by revere, cross-posted from Effect Measure The latest study on flu vaccine effectiveness in children has been well discussed in the MSM and the flu blogs, so I’ll point you to those excellent pieces (Branswell, crof, Mike Coston at Avian Flu Diary) and just add some things not covered...

Flu vaccines, herd immunity and randomized trials

March 11, 2010 Vaccines

The latest study on flu vaccine effectiveness in children has been well discussed in the MSM and the flu blogs, so I'll point you to those excellent pieces (Branswell, crof, Mike Coston at Avian Flu Diary) and just add some things not covered elsewhere. The full text of the article is available for...

Chamber of Commerce and their snowstorm excuse

Celeste Monforton March 10, 2010 Confined Space @ TPH

Yesterday OSHA announced a 15-day extension on the due date to submit comments on its proposed changes to the OSHA 300 injury/illness log.   In the agency’s Federal Register notice, OSHA says it: “received requests from several entities, including the Chamber of Commerce, National...

Why not do things right in the first place?

Cervantes March 10, 2010

I got an e-mail from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services:The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today terminated its contract with Fox Insurance Company. After an onsite review of the plan and its services, CMS determined that the plan’s significant deficiencies – not...

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Alliances for Global Health Education: Learning from South-South Collaboration

CUERNAVACA April 9-11, 2010 Community/Public Health & Epidemiology, Environmental & Nutritional Medicine, Medical Education

The conference aims to develop a program which reflects the vibrancy and variety of Global Health programs throughout the region, while highlighting the South-South experience in fostering new collaborative mechanisms, using the lessons learned from...

Rheumatology: Improving Primary Care Outcomes Through Diagnosis and Treatment

SARASOTA April 12-16, 2010 Community/Public Health & Epidemiology, Rheumatology, Primary Care/General Practice/Family Medicine

Following this course, the participant should be able to describe the epidemiology and presenting complaints of the commonly seen Rheumatologic disorders; apply a practical approach to the use of laboratory studies and physical exam for developing...

Biennial Behavioural Research in Cancer Control

PERTH April 14-16, 2010 Community/Public Health & Epidemiology, Oncology

The Cancer Council Western Australia is proud to be hosting the 10th Biennial Behavioural Research in Cancer Control Conference, to be held from 14-16 April 2010, at the Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle, Western Australia. The conference is supported by...

World Vaccine Congress Washington 2010

WASHINGTON, DC April 19-22, 2010 Allergy & Immunology, Community/Public Health & Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases & Microbiology

Now in its 10th year, World Vaccine Congress 2010 remains the industry’s definitive vaccine industry event for major vaccine players and their respective senior level representatives.

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Organisations hosting and organising Community/Public Health & Epidemiology events.

AACR

AACR and IASLC

African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)

American Medical Seminars, Inc.

American Society for Microbiology

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Amy Hill

Anwarul Hasan Sufi

Australian Disease Management Association (ADMA)

Australian Lactation Consultants' Association

Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth

Bogazici University, the Department of Primary Education

Canadian Society for International Health

Cancer Council

Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Tobacco Control

Chronic Diseases Network

Continuing Education, Inc.

Criterion Conferences

Department of Health, QLD

Elsevier

Emma Huang

Erin Nicholls

European Public Health Association

Eventuate

Family Action Centre, University of Newcastle

Garth Hardie

GHEC: Global Health Education Consortium

Gina Geldenhuys

Health Network Communications

Hepatitis Australia

Infection Prevention Society

Institute for Research on Global Business

Integrated Primary Health Care

International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC)

International Society for Urban Health

International Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics

Jennifer James

Julie Phillips

Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education Network

Melissa Blake

Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health & Environment

National Office of the Australasian College of Road Safety

National Vaccine Information Center

Niva

NSW Centre for Road Safety

NSW Rural Allied Health

Ontario Public Health Association

Oulu Psychiatric Epidemiology Society

PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for the Study of Dengue and its Vector

PHAIWA, Cancer Council

Professor Jens Peter Bonde, MD, PhD

Public Health Association Australia (PHAA)

Rachel Swinburn

Rachelle Hogan

Second European Network for Socio-Emotional Competence in Children and Bogazici University

Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Inc. (SNAICC)

SIVUS

Sociedad Latinoamericana de Micobacterias y Tuberculosis (SLAMTB)

Society for DOHAD

Society for General Microbiology (SGM)

TBA

Terrapinn

The Australian National University

The Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand

The Lancet

The National Institute of Public Health of Mexico

Tour Hosts Conference & Exhibition Organisers

University of Edinburgh

Vernon Ndlovu

Wessex Institute of Technology

World Cancer Research Fund

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